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String Quartets in Cheshire

Find available string quartets in Cheshire on our national live music database

Select Cheshire String Quartets

Below are a few of our string quartets across the UK. To find string quartets in Cheshire select your county from the drop down box. This will show all of our string quartets that play in your area, so minimising travel costs.

Quotation and Booking

- If you are interested in one of our string quartets, send an email for a prompt, no obligation quotation. Want to discuss the musical options and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.

Composers through history and string quartets

Many composers have written music specifically for the String Quartet, which was considered by many of them to the be the perfect musical ensemble. Other musical works have been transcribed for he quartet, including orchestral, vocal and even pop and jazz pieces. A few examples are given below, as illustrations:- Georges Migot (1891-1976; age 84); Czeslaw Marek (1891-1985; age 93); Carlo Forlivesi (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); gal (Gál, Bernhard) (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); William Maxwell (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Reine Jönsson (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Guy Cuyvers (1960-still alive 2003; age ca. 43); Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937; age 65); Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko (1872-1956; age 83); Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958; age 85); Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956; age 83); Maciej Zoltowski (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32); Marcel Chyrzynski (1971-still alive 2003; age ca. 32);

String Quartets - Quotations.

An example of what has been written about string quartets. A Quotation:-

Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe and he called for hisbowl, And he called for his fiddlers three. Anonymous Nursery’ rhyme

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in Cheshire

Weddings - Our String Quartets are experienced setting just the right atmosphere for your wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our quartets, online

Corporate & Parties - Whatever your corporate event or party is for, our highly versatile String Quartets will have the right music for the occasion.

Here is some typical repertoire of our string quartets

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR STRING QUARTETS

Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; El Relicario – Padilla; Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Mozart - 10 celebrated Quartets; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Fauré – Pavanne; Mendelssohn - Midsummer night's Dream; Pachelbel - Canon in D; Puccini - Musetta's Waltz; Mozart - Three Divertimenti ; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze ; Handel - Hornpipe from the Water Music; Bizet - Habanera from Carmen; Mendelssohn - Wedding March; Boccherini - Minuet ; Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture; Purcell - Chacony in G minor; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Sullivan - The Mikado; Borodin - First Polovtsian Dance; Capua - O Sole Mio; Elgar - Salut d'Amour ; Debussy - Clair de Lune; Mozart - Voi Che Sapette from The Marriage of Figaro; Delibes - Flower Duet from Lakmé; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; The Beatles - Penny Lane; Bernstein - Maria from West Side Story; Carillon; Ravel – Bolero; Purcell - Two Rondeaux from Abdelazar and the Fairy Queen;